Green Inefficiency for Regions in China

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ABSTRACT

Water use efficiency and related pollutants' abatement costs of regional industrial systems in China: a slacks-based measure approach

“…However, most of the extant studies mainly focused on examining the shadow prices of waste gases (i.e., sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides), e.g., Ke et al (2008), Lee and Zhang (2012) and Wang and Wei (2014). Ke et al (2010) in their study have explored the shadow prices of industrial waste gas, wastewater and solid waste in China, but they have not investigated water efficiency and the shadow prices of main pollutants in wastewater (i.e.,. In addition, the most previous studies use the radial efficiency measures that cannot capture all the technical inefficiency in inputs, desirable outputs and pollutants.…”

Forecasting China's industrial output using a spatial Bayesian vector autoregressive model

“…In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the second largest economy in the world behind the U.S. (Barboza, ). Its economy is driven by industries which deplete resources and cause environmental pollution (Ke, Hu, & Wen‐Ju, ). Lately, China has been dealing with an air pollution problem which has made many cities “barely suitable for living” (Wagstaff, ).…”